Religion Quotes
Religions must continue to evolve to keep up with changing times, because only fittest shall survive.B. J. Gupta
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.Albert Einstein
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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness.Hannah More
Religion... is the basis and foundation of government... before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.James Madison
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)
Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.Sigmund Freud
A cult is a religion with no political power.Tom Wolfe
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.Don Hirschberg
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.Frederick Buechne
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.Reinhold Niebuh
Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.Oscar Wilde
I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.Robert Millikan
Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.A. J. Toynbee
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness.Dalai Lama
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.Sir Richard F. Burton
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.James Feibleman
The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.Martin Luthe
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.John Hay
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.George Santayana
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.Percy Bysshe Shelley
Just as there is a lower carelessness which means death to the soul, so there is a higher carelessness which is the supreme gift of religion. We must all at length rest back upon God.W. E. Orchard
We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.Jonathan Swift
When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.Voltaire
Being perfectly well - Dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoting a friend
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.John Ruskin
To feel the right emotions is fully as important as to hold the right ideas, and the great service of religion is the development of the right emotions.Geoffrey Parsons
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by... religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.Harvey Cox
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.Woodrow Wilson
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.Austin Farra
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism".
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.Thomas Hobbes
The artist needs no religion beyond his work.Elbert Hubbard
Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich.Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion is pickled God.H. G. Wells, H. G. Wells Society
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.George Bernard Shaw, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898)
